Fundar 4578 Resultados para: God
Count as thou wilt on the strength of thy array, God will give thy enemies the mastery; he alone sends victory and defeat. (2 Chronicles 25, 8)
After this victory over the Edomites, Amasias brought home with him some of the idols men worshipped there in Seir; and these gods he made his own, worshipping them himself and burning incense before them. (2 Chronicles 25, 14)
And the Lord, much angered with him, sent a prophet to ask, What gods are these thou worshippest, that could not rescue their own people from thy onslaught? (2 Chronicles 25, 15)
But Amasias would have his way; the Lord’s will was that he should fall into his enemy’s hands, to punish him for worshipping the gods of Edom. (2 Chronicles 25, 20)
Such victory God gave him over the Philistines, the Arabs, too, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Ammonites; (2 Chronicles 26, 7)
But this greatness of his made his heart proud, to his own undoing. He slighted the Lord his God; into the temple he would go, and there burn incense at the censing-altar. (2 Chronicles 26, 16)
to withstand the royal will. Not for thee, Ozias, they cried, to burn incense in the Lord’s honour; that is for the priests, the sons of Aaron, that are set apart for this office. Leave this holy place, and profane it no more; thou wilt win no favour from the Lord God by such doings as these. (2 Chronicles 26, 18)
he followed the example of the Israelite kings, casting images of the countryside gods. (2 Chronicles 28, 2)
So the Lord his God left him at the mercy of the king of Syria, who defeated him, and robbed his kingdom of rich spoils, which he carried off to Damascus. The king of Israel, too, had the mastery of him, and inflicted grievous loss; (2 Chronicles 28, 5)
a hundred and twenty thousand men of Juda, all tried warriors, did Phacee son of Romelia slay in one day’s space, and all because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. (2 Chronicles 28, 6)
But there was a prophet of the Lord dwelling there at this time, Oded by name, who went out to meet the army on their way into the city, and expostulated with them. Here are the men of Juda, said he, left at your mercy, only because the Lord, the God of your fathers, is angry with them; and you have made murderous use of your victory; the tale of your cruelties mounts up to heaven. (2 Chronicles 28, 9)
he would even offer victims to the gods of Damascus, that were his enemies; These Syrian gods, thought he, help their own country now, they will be on my side instead, if I win them over with gifts. But in truth these gods were his ruin, and all Israel’s.✻ (2 Chronicles 28, 23)
